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Chicago Herald
June 7/93.

NEBRASKA WILL OPEN

DEDICATION OF HER STATE HALL.

Preparations for Travelers' Protective Association
Day at the Fiar--Good Reasons
for Expecting Lower Rates by
Railroad in the Near Future.

To-morrow will be Nebraska day at the
world's fair. The state building will be
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.
Governor Crounse will receive the building
in behalf of the state from Commissioner
General Joseph Garneau, Jr., and in turn
will dedicate it to the uses for which it was
erected. There will be music and speechmaking
and other exercises of a typical
western nature. Buffalo Bill and his band
of cowboys and Indians, numbering 200,
will be on hand as an escort for Governor
Crounse and his staff.

The Nebraska building is the first of the
state buildings to be reached at the Fifty-
seventh street entrance to the fair grounds.
It has not only a commanding position, but
is in every way a credit to the enterprising
transmissouri commonwealth. Nebraska
makes a fine showing in the general departments
of the exposition, and has special
pavilions in such buildings as agriculture,
forestry, dairy, horticulture and the apiary.
In the state building there is also a collection
of grains and other products of the
state. These are arranged by counties.
The second story of the building has reception
and retiring rooms for ladies and
gentlemen. In a large room upstairs there
is an Indian tepee and a pair of
stuffed buffaloes. The popular interest
in the latter exhibit has been so great
that it has been necessary to put a railing
around it. Visitors wanted to peer into the
teepe and handle the buffaloes, to see if
they were real. There is one room on the
second floor completely furnished and decorated
by Nebraska women which contains
various articles of skilled handiwork. To
the agriculturist, however, the center of attraction
is the large room on the lower
floor, containing the exhibit of cereals.
"Corn is King" and "Sugar is Queen" are
two prominent mottoes that are worked in
native grasses. The building contains a
reading-room, postoffice and other conveniences
for Nebraskans. There will be a
room upstairs set apart for Nebraska people
who bring their lunches to the fair in
baskets.

Procession to the Building.

To-morrow Governor Crounse will be escorted
from the Woodlawn station by Buffalo
Bill and his cowboys and Indians, the latter
representing Nebraska in the early days
Colonel Cody calls himself a Nebraskan, and
a portion of his troops hail from the same
state. On arriving at the state building
there will be addresses by the governor and
other prominent state officials. Congressman
W. J. Bryan, ex-Governor R. T. Furnas
and Senator Allen are expected to be
present. Later the visitors will march to
the agricultural building, where the Nebraska
section will be opened to the public.
The procession will march past administration
building and will pay especial honor
to her royal highness the Infanta Eulalia
and suite. Mrs. Caroline Brooks will give
public exhibition of butter-making during
the day at the state building. A large number
of Nebraskans from Omaha, Lincoln,
Hastings and other cities in the state are
expected.